State Dept

• State Department


  One of the branches that make up the Executive Branch that protects the American and U.S. interest abroad and enforces foreign policies
• Diplomats


  Official representing a country abroad
• Diplomacy


  Managing international relations
• Diplomats work with other countries, foreign governments, and global partners to represent the United States and maintain relations
• Diplomacy has a good impact


  It helps build and maintain relationships and friendships. On an international level, diplomacy is extremely useful and helpful because it helps to keep us safe by maintaining allies
• The diplomacy simulation goes step by step what is going on daily in the State Government
• The dangers posed to refugees are the lack of stable homes and proper healthcare
• The best way to help refugees

  Listen to the people and refugees' needs and wants
• Humanitarian assistance and diplomacy help by providing assistance to people in need during crises by helping to provide necessities such as food, water, clothes, blankets, and more
• It is in our interest to help refugees


  Over 50% of the refugees are under the age of 18. These people are our soon to be leaders of America. Helping refugees can also help to secure our national and international
• The U.S. provides funding with both national and international NGOs. NGOs also work with other international organizations to help provide education and other necessities
• The U.S. works with the UN and other international organizations to help provide humanitarian assistance to prevent an event like the Holocaust reoccurring
• The U.S. pays for the assessment to see the faults of the country, so they can correct them
• Frank Almaguer


  Served as a Peace Corps volunteer, then he became the peace corps associate director, and then he became the country director
• When Frank Almaguer served in the Peace Corps


  1960s
• Frank Almaguer couldn't decide on a career path and was eager and excited about the newly developed Peace Corps
• Differences between Peace Corps and State Department

  • Peace Corps: Before speaker, Bill, direct service, grassroots, stakeholders, regular people, informal
  • State Department: Last class - ppts, readings, notes, diplomacy, format, student guide, HW, format
• Explicit knowledge


  Knowledge from documents or websites
• Tacit knowledge


  Knowledge from self experience
• Physical boundaries


  Bodies of water, mountain ranges, & oceans
• Political boundaries


  Imaginary lines drawn by people to distinguish different nations / lands
• Many nations use a combination of physical and political borders
• England


  • N - political, Scotland
  • S - physical, English Channel
  • E - physical, North Sea
  • W - political, Wales
• Borders unite and separate people
• National identity


  Same language(s), Cultural history
• Sometimes people of different ethnic groups, cultural histories, religions, and languages are forced together, which can lead to uneasy tension
• After WWI, 5 different people forced into 1 nation

  • Yugoslavia - broke up into 5 nations after the fall of the Soviet Union: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Kosovo
• Open borders


  No requirements to enter country, no restrictions
• Controlled borders


  Requirements to enter country, heavy restrictions
• Closed borders


  Not allowed to exit or enter
• Borders can represent alliance and political ideas as well as nations or people
• Alliances


  Formal agreement between 2 or more countries; agree to support each other for a common goal
• Countries form alliances to better protect themselves
• Economic and political associations provide an identity for the nations that join them
• European Union (EU)


  27 countries, economic and political integration, focus on foreign policy, defense, crisis management, economic union - operates an internal (single) market which allows free movement of goods, capital, services, and people between member states
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)


  32 countries, intergovernmental military alliance, focus on political and security issues
• Some alliances are temporary, like during WWII when the map of Europe could have shown a division between Axis-controlled nations
• Whether acting on their own or as part of an organization of alliance, nations will work to prevent or end conflict through diplomacy, or communication and negotiations between warring groups
• Summit


  Meeting between different nations to discuss problems and try to find a diplomatic solution, sometimes involving changing national borders or creating new nations
• Treaty


  Agreement reached between nations involved in a conflict, when they cannot reach an agreement, international organizations such as the United Nations (UN) or the African Union (AU) will step in to hold a summit and reach an agreement